Chapter 2: Research in Health Psychology Flashcards
What does Critical Thinking include?
A questioning approach to all information and arguments.
Doesn’t blindly accept conclusions.
Examining all underlying assumptions
Evaluates evidence.
What is a theory?
A detailed explanation that has been tested many times and never shown to be false
What is a hypothesis?
A testable prediction
What are scientific methods?
Systematic
Precision
Unbiased/Objective
What are “unscientific thinking”
Leaping to un-warranted (untested conclusions)
What is faulty reasoning?
Ignoring alternative explanations in the face of our own expectations
What is belief bias?
A form of faulty reasoning in which our expectations prevent us from seeing alternative explanations for our observations.
What is Epidemiology?
The scientific study of the frequency, distribution, and causes of a particular disease or other health outcome in population
What is an example of what Epidemiology focuses on?
COVID
What does morbidity focus on?
DISEASE
The number of causes of a specific illness, injury or disability in a given group of people at given time
What does mortality focus on?
DEATH
The number of death due to a specific cause in a given group at a given time
What is an incidence?
The number of new cases of a disease or condition that occur in a specific population within a defined time interval.
What is Prevalance
The total number of diagnosed cases of a disease or condition that exist at a given time.
What are the two Epidemiological Research Methods?
Retrospective Study
Prospective Study
What is a Retrospective study?
A backward looking study in which a group of people who have a certain condition are compared with a group of people who have a certain condition are compared with a group of people who are free of that condition
